During a Saturday interview on the Fox News program “America’s News HQ,” Rep. Dana Rohrabacher discussed President Donald Trump’s visit to Asia and what it means for the future of American foreign policy.

Host Julie Banderas started off by asking the California Republican how important he thought Trump’s visit was.

“It’s important for a number of reasons,” Rohrabacher responded. “We have a president now who is not seen as a patsy.”

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“The last president we had for eight years was seen as someone who was weak and not willing to commit force when it was necessary,” he added. “This president they are afraid of, and that’s good.”

“Our enemies are afraid of our president. Good,” he stated.

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Rohrabacher also noted that forming an alliance with Japan will be critical toward ensuring a safer world.

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When discussion led to other countries Trump planned on visiting during his trip, Banderas wondered how the president will approach negotiations with China, considering he has taken a hardline stance toward the nation in the past.

“Well I think that the fact that we have a president now who will not put up with having all of our technology stolen from us,” Rohrabacher said. “The Chinese have been aggressive, and they have been threatening, and we need to make sure that we have a president that can stand up to that.”

Rohrabacher added that President Xi Jinping is the “new Mao” in China, but “we’ve got a tough guy to stand up face to face with him, and so I think the American people can have confidence that we’re going to watch out for us economically, but also for our national security as the president goes to China.”

Trump traveled to Japan over the weekend for the first leg of his Asia trip.

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While at Yokota Air Base near Tokyo on Sunday, the president addressed U.S. troops and pledged to ensure the military had the resources needed to keep peace and defend freedom.

“No one — no dictator, no regime and no nation — should underestimate, ever, American resolve,” Trump told a cheering crowd, as reported by The Hill.